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Month: May 2017

Ethiopia’s Leul Gebresilase, winner of the men’s race at the fifth edition of the Okpekpe International 10km Road Race held three weeks ago in Okpekpe near Auchi in Edo State has proved he is one of the athletes to watch out for this season.

The 24-year-old who came second behind Kenya’s Korio Alex Olotptip at the third edition of the Okpekpe race in 2015 before breaking the Kenyan dominance over a fortnight ago ran a personal season best time of 28:43 to win the IAAF Gold Label Ottawa 10K in Ottawa, Canada at the weekend.

“This is a confirmation of the fact that we brought truly world-class athletes to compete at the Okpekpe race. We brought gold-level running athletes to compete in a bronze label event which shows our ambition to move up the ranking into gold in no time,” said Dare Esan, spokesman for the Okpekpe race.

Edo state government is to set up a technical committee to plan a three year development programme for the Okpekpe 10 kilometer road race ahead of the May 12 date already set aside for next year’s event.

It was a clean sweep of medals for the Ethiopians in the men’s category of the 5th edition of the Okpekpe International 10km Road Race held on Saturday, May 13th in Edo State.

The Ethiopian trio of Leul Gebriesialse (00:29:28), Jima Bekele (00:29.34) and Dawit Fikadu (00:32.22) crossed the finishing line one after the other to beat their Kenyan counterparts to the top prize of the only IAAF bronze label race in Nigeria. Read more “Ethiopians claim Okpekpe Road Race titles”

The President of the IndustriALL Global Union, Comrade Issa Aremu has stressed the need for the re-indutrilisation of the African continent in order to add value to its abundant raw materials through comprehensive beneficiation/value addition programme. Read more “Aremu makes case for re-industrialisation of Africa”

Reigning Miss Nigeria,Chioma Stephanie Obiadi has signed on to run at next month’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Bronze Label Okpekpe international 10km road race to raise awareness about the Green-Girl project,a Miss Nigeria initiative aimed at empowering young women to become agents of sustainable environment in Nigeria.

With this project,Miss Obiadi,also the reigning Miss Anambra 2016 and a student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University who was crowned late last year as the 40th Miss Nigeria will be engaging young people and girls in schools/communities across Nigeria.